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• TPD: Terminal Printer Destruc
• TPD: Triple Pack Decimal
• hidden flag n. [scientific computation] An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence.
  For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass....
• hidden flag: [scientific computation] n. An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence.
  For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass....
• To program is to be.
• Diagnostic: software which runs to completion no matter how broken the hardware is.
• diagnostic -- what you say to an agnostic you really dislike.
• %d total pages, dump
• There's a lot to be said for total silence.